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Community Agreements
In this unit of the course, we will be exploring an important topic that many people find challenging to discuss, in part because our individual experiences may be considerably different from one anothers’. So, I’d like to start by having us set a few community agreements, or “norms,” to help make the space feel safe Read More …
When Some People are Thought of As Trash
Blurb: “A white lower class not only figured more prominently in the development of the colonies and the young country than national lore suggests, but was spoken of from the start explicitly in terms of waste and refuse. Read reader letters reacting to the article here.
NPR Interview with Coates
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Why are We Surprised That White People Like Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Writing?
Journalist and lawyer Sally Kohn may have a better idea. In “Why White Women Should Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Book,” an opinion piece featured in ELLE, Kohn didn’t discuss white fandom. But as a white woman, she urges other white women to pick up the memoir—especially those who may live in very homogeneous white communities.“That Between the World and Me was Read More …
Brainstorm – Feb. 15, 2019
This unit’s essential questions: In what variety of ways do our social identities shape our personal identities, our minds, our relationships, our lives, our life paths, our prospects, our sense of America and the American Dream?
